184 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



A. M. Montgomery ; E. Step, F.L.S. ; and J. W. Tntt, F.E.S. The 

 President read his address, and votes of thanks to the retiring Officers 

 and Council were passed. A proposal was made to close the rooms 

 during the summer holiday season, but it was not passed by the 

 meetin?. 



Febrnarij 14f/(.— Mr. H. S. Fremlin, M.K.C.S., F.E.S. , President, 

 in the chair. — Mr. Garrett, of Brewer's Green, was elected a member. 

 Mr. Colthrup exhibited a drawing of a dashed and radiated under side 

 var. of Polyommatus icarus, taken by Mr. Hill, of Folkestone. Mr, 

 Wyandotte, a large number of specimens of amber having insects em- 

 bedded in them. Mr. West (Streatham) read a paper, "Fossil Insects, 

 with especial reference to insects in amber." He afterwards showed a 

 very large number of photographic lantern slides of insects in amber, 

 Hy. J. Turner, Ho7i. Report. Sec. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — The Annual 

 Meeting was held on Monday, January 14th, in the new room 

 taken by the Society at the Royal Institution, Colquitt Street, 

 Liverpool. The Vice-President, Mr. E. J. Burgess Sopp, occupied 

 the chair. The Secretary read a report on the work of the year 

 1900. The Treasurer read his report, which showed a credit balance 

 of 15s. Mr. Pierce mentioned incidentally that the Library had been 

 brought over to the new premises, and would be lodged in an adjoining 

 room as soon as space could be found for it. The election of officers 

 for 1901 was then proceeded with, and resulted as follows : — President, 

 S. J. Capper, F.E.S. ; Vice-Presidents, R. Wilding and Rev. R. Free- 

 man, M.A. ; Secretaries, F. N. Pierce and Fredk. Birch ; Treasurer, 

 Dr. J. Cotton, F.E.S. ; Librarian, F. C. Tliompson. Council, A. 

 Tippins, B. H. Crabtree, F.E.S., R. Tait, E. J. Burgess Sopp, F.E.S., 

 and Dr. H. Dobie. The outgoing Vice-Pi'esident, Mr. E. J. Burgess 

 Sopp, then gave a most interesting and instructive address. The Rev. 

 R. Freeman proposed a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Sopp ; this waa 

 seconded by Mr. Wilding, and carried unanimously. Dr. Cotton 

 proposed, and the members agreed, that the Secretary should write to 

 the President, expressing their regret at this his first absence from the 

 Society's annual meeting for so many years. 



jSlondaii, February 11th. — The usual monthly meeting was held in 

 the Royal Instituiiou, CoL;iuitt Street, Liverpool, with the Vice-Presi- 

 dent, Mr. R. Wilding, in the chair. Minutes of the preceding meeting 

 were read and confii-med. It was decided by a vote that the next 

 meeting should be held at St. Helen's. Mr. F. C. Thompson, Rev. R. 

 Freeman, and Dr. J. Cotton were appointed to make the necessary 

 arrangements. The Secretary read a letter from the President, Mr. 

 S. J. Capper, thanking the members for the regrets and good wishes 

 they had caused to be sent to him on the occasion of his first absence 

 from the Society's annual meeting, held on January 14th, on which 

 date Mr. Capper's place had been filled by Mr. E. J. Burgess Sopp, 

 who gave a stirring address. The joint Secretary, Mr. Frederick Birch, 

 then read a paper entitled, " Our Raid into the Highlands," in which 

 he described what he and his companions, Messrs. J. and H. Tayler, 

 did and saw at Rannoch (north-west Perthshire) in the summer of 

 1900. Starting from Liverpool by steamer on the 16th of June, they 



